From: JR_Prance@cargill.com
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 4:24 PM
To: FDAdockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: cattle regulations
"Please immediately enact regulation
that requires the removal of the brain and spinal cord from all cattle
over 30 months of age. This will result in a 99.8% risk reduction of
all infectivity. Please do not require the removal of all SRMs, because
this only improves the risk reduction by 0.1% but will cost more than
$157,000,000 per year and cause a huge environmental problem.
On another subject, ruminant derived blood meal: I understand you are
considering removing ruminant blood meal from ruminant feed. I
understand there is no scientific justification for this, and even
Europe with its huge BSE problem doesn't do this. Further, it would
cost the industry, cattlemen and dairymen at least $150,000,000 per
year.
I urge you to thoroughly consider my request.
Sincerely,
J. R. Prance, CTA
Personal Marketing Manager
Cargill AgHorizons Marketing Service
SEMO Farm Service Group
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